Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-01
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c.sctlvely, nc; Incidentally, yce !
Some Of the cIeyerest people In til,
rid; I saw the finest city on the CONT
Mt excepting Fort Worth, and ! wsnt
u to get that in without tGil. I car
ave here tonight; ana I value my lIfe),
Id I found thousands Of warm
sends OF Texas. You must reColieCt
ct sCme OF the most enterprjsing and
lest men in Kansas City are TeXas
7hO made their fortunes IL the
Panhandle. They still own large
SITS there and nave kindly feeling
e cid place"
hat sre they doing for TeXas?'
hey ere doing more for Texas than
ell at one sitting, but IN mention
Of them: On the Kansas side of
Kaw river they have built
Imense stock yards especially Tor Texas
tile. These yards have four divisions,
n division has capacity of forty cars,
70 100 cars which can he handled
TIE KaW river has been bridged
cially for the purpose of facilitating
transfer 81 Texas cattle to the Kansas
side and several packerieS are being
I in close proximity to the Texas
Ie Yards Tor the purpose of slaughter
and refrigeTating Texas beer and
IS. Messrs. Swift & Co. are
Getting packery which will
lughter 1000 head daily, with strange
tents to increase the capacity when the
crease in the product demands it.
Trhgam & Co., on the south OF the Texas
IDS, are erecting works with capacity
500 hogs daily; Mr.. Hammond OF II
Is looking for q location near these
5, and viii soon be open Tor the
2: Squires Of Boston and North of
York are looking for location FOR
packery with capacity of 1000
daily; Nelse Morris has
1ined mis- interests with 3
trust company and viii
rally come over to divide with the
The product OF the Texas ranges.
Sc enterprises will absorb from 5000
10000 Cattle daily, and from $4,000 to
boo hogs. And considering the short
g OF the haul as compared win other
rkegS, II will make Kansas City the
e market for Texas cattle of any IN the
Intry. It is generally rumored that
the stock yarGs Will be removed to
Kansas side of the river, and the load
re thst attracts them is the Texas
lges. l teIIyOU these people ere alive to
Importance of Texas trade, and are
king strenuous efforts TO secure it.
tt am busy and must get TO work"
The scribe ceased lis inquiries and was
TX to leave, 1APp his eye fell upon the
,msas City Times of the Esd. In this
) an interview with Major Adsmson,
N which we make the following eX
cts;
Major Ad8msou, said:
"It is 33S miles from Kansas City to
iowa, and 245 miles to the point OF con-
nection with the Fort Worth and Denver
City Railway in Carson county, Texas.
This gives Kansas City ASS miles shorter
haul than to Chicago aud $50 miles
shorter haul than to st. Louis.
"The chief business to this point from
Panhandle will be cattle. New pens
" completed made expressly for the
,modationoi Texas cattle are located
0urdsle, with capacity of holding
is OF stock daily. Kansas
,etofore been a somewhat IN
-ket with stoCkmen in the
and N asking Tor rates at
IheE wSut privileges of Kansas
al Chicago. A liberal policy with
,Xas csttlemen would undoubtedly
their trade TO this city.
reply TO your question as to what
YOU can reach our country over,
that your merchants and manufsctu-
ean market there, would say that
.tchison, Topeka aud Santa re Rail
gives YOUR short line to the Panhan-
ID country l have mentioned, and
~ Missouri Pacific to Fort Worth, as
Jas the Santa Fe route, from which
as can be distributed 10 all points ii
as"
,iWaat clsgs OF people a:e going into
II courtry?"
1 'rhere Is quite large immigration
ming into the Panhandle. While 1t
S been kno1n for years past as 4 mag
3cent country, il has not beer accesst-
ID bY railroad until the present
when attention is just being
I'd TO It. There has been 9 steady
OF prnspectors for the past four
who have been looking the coun-
with view To settlement, and 8
er OF settlers have taken up
e,or which they are making i'm
These settlers are from